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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Monday, April 21, 2003

Grants

Advertiser Staff

YWCA awarded $25,000

The YWCA of O'ahu has received two grants to further its "Dress for Success" program, including $10,000 from the Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation and $15,000 from the Bank of Hawaii Foundation.

Dress for Success is located in the YWCA Laniakea Center, 1040 Richards St. The program provides career attire and emotional support to women in transition to new careers.


Goodwill given $20,000

Goodwill Industries of Honolulu has been awarded $20,000 from the Sophie Russell Testamentary Trust for the purchase of equipment needed to handle the large volume of donations coming into the organization since its partnership with Big Brothers Big Sisters in January.

The BBBS donations double the amount of donations Goodwill processes and sells through its stores. Locally, Goodwill Industries channels more than 90 percent of its revenues from the sale of donated goods into programs and services.


Priory program gets grants

St. Andrew's Priory has received grants totaling $35,000 for its "Teaching and Learning with Laptops" program.

The Atherton Family Foundation gave the school a $25,000 and Verizon Foundation has donated $10,000, which will go toward mobile carts with new laptop computers.

All students at St. Andrew's Priory in grades 7-12 have laptops now and have wireless Internet connections, but the new computers will help create a mobile computer lab for Priory's elementary school students, school officials said.


Money to help HTY programs

The Honolulu Theatre for Youth has been awarded two grants totalling $60,000 from national agencies for its playwriting programs over the next two years.

HTY will receive a $50,000 two-year grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts and $10,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The NEA grant will allow HTY to extend its popular Pacific Young Playwrights program to Moloka'i. The Pew grant will serve as a cornerstone for the December 7, 1941 Project, an oral history project being developed in Wahiawa that will explore what happened in Wahiawa and the surrounding community during the Dec. 7 attacks. For more information, call Tasi Manicas at 941-5097.


Health center gets $14,090

The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation has given a $14,090 grant to Waimanalo Health Center to use for screening uninsured women of Hawaiian and Filipino ancestry who are 40 to 49 years old.

The center already has a state grant to screen uninsured women of Hawaiian and Filipino descent who are 50 to 64 years old.

The Komen Foundation grant will also provide educational information, materials for the center's outreach staff, a women's health fair and support groups.


Charities can apply for money

Applications are now available for charities on O'ahu interested in receiving money from the May 17 Hawai'i Hotel Association Visitor Industry Charity Walk.

Application requests may be made by mail or fax to Tiny Yamaki, Hawai'i Hotel Association, 2250 Kalakaua Ave, Suite 404-4, Honolulu, HI 96815; fax number 924-3843. All applications should include the name, address, and contact person of the organization. Completed forms should be submitted to the HHA office by 4 p.m. May 30 or postmarked May 30.

Last year's event raised more than $780,000 statewide and benefited more than 190 local non-profit organizations.


$50,000 goes to scholarships

The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has awarded $50,000 to the Saint Louis Education Foundation to be used for scholarships to the school.

The check was presented March 13 at the school's Gallery of Distinguished Achievers ceremony.